The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-09-11

WIN belIlg the nlOSb OF cdplUdilSb Oh itet
sex in the United States, Her wealth would
foot up from S35,0O0,000 to $40, 900, 900,
suppose. She inherited Sl3, 900, 600, married
s., 100000 and has made the rest by shrewd
financiering Another clear-headed woman
is Miss Elizabeth Garrett, who must have
$50, 100000 or more and who knows how to
take care of it. She was her fathers priv.
ate secretary for years and understands
Baltimore and Ohio stock as well as any
body. Miss Garrett is not as rich as she
would be if she were less charitable. She
never filings money away recklessly, but
expends large sums with discrimination and
good sense on educational and philanthropio
projects. Mrs Mark Hopkins sricher than
Miss Garrett, though her neighbors, the will
age folk, are less enthusiastic about her than
they used to be before she put up a high
fence or Chinese wall about that 50, 900 ,00O
palace of hers at Great Darlington Mrs.
Hopkins is not worth less than $50, DOC
or S35, 000, 900 probably, and she too is noted
for her charity. Mrs Emily II. Moir, the
heir of the Morgan property, pays the larg-
est personal assessment of any woman in
New York, and Mrs. Sarah II. Green
comes next her. Mrs John Jacob Astor
has tidy sum of from 81, 600, 600 to $1,000,
600. Rich New York widows estimated at
from 81 100000 to S5,000,000 abound and
there are some hundreds of unmarried
women under so who have from 100000
upwards in their own name. Mrs. w. E.
Dodge has invested her money well and it
amounts to So, 100000 perhaps Commodore
Vanderbilts widow has something more
than doubled what her husband left her.
Mrs Robert Goelet and GARRISON Potter's
widow are not poor. Miss May Calender
must be worth a million. The Misses Leary
and the Misses Furniss, of Fifth avenue,
have large incomes. Miss Adele Grant, who
has been starring it with Miss Winslow for
foil, has 500, 900 or more Mrs. Langtry
has got above the 100000 mark. Mrs. John
Minturn has money. Miss Grace Ii. Dodge
has fortune of her own. Mrs. Frank Leslie
must have $1,000,000. Mrs. Hicks-Lord has
several millions
There ore some married women in New
York who have private fortunes. Mrs.
Whitney has plenty and will have more.
Whitelaw Reid got his money with d. O.
Mills daughter and Mayor Hewitt his with
Peter Cooper's daughter.
A rich New Highlander is Mrs Sutton OF
Peabody, Mass. Her husband left her ST.
000,0O0. She has made it not far from &c.
100000. She has not had happy life, for
his collar bone a half dozen times falling
from ottomans and chairs, and
finally broke his neck falling
from a Shetland pony. She has endowed O
magnificent reference library room in the
Peabody library, founded by George Pea.
body, and her boys picture framed in
gold hangs on its walls. Mrs. Frederick
Lenoir, of Springfield. is another rich Bay
State woman, owning perhaps $4,000, 900
is made wealthy by her husbands gifts,
and supports great numbers of free kin.
dergartens.
One of the wealthiest Baltimore DANES is
Mrs. Hutton, daughter of Thomas Winans
She has $4,000, 900 or more. Mrs Sarah
McEvoy. of Chicago, has half that, per.
haps. Mrs. G. H. Mccormick, of Chicago
has about as much.
The Drexel sisters, of Philadelphia, have
some millions apiece, and the widow of Tom
Scott the railroad President. had 81, 000,-
600 or IS, 900, 600 left her by her husband
There are dozens of rich Philadelphia
widows and some good catches among the
heiresses. Miss Ellen Erben, for instance
has big income. Miss Lillian Reeves and
Miss Helen RiveS, late settlers in the City of
Brotherly Love, have not less than 81 800,
coo apiece. Mrs. DisSton has a great deal OF
money.
Washington is not city of rich women,
but there are several who have 81 000,0 900
some who have more than that sum. II
would be hard indeed to find city in tht
United States which has not women whose
property lists reckon up good sums
Major Burke's wife. of New Orleans, and
Mrs. Nicholson, editor and owner of the
Piculrt1le of that city, are rich Southern
ladies, and Miss Celeste Stauffer, to whom
Tilden left 100000 is one of the prettiest
and brightest young women Of that city as
well.
Mrs Alvinza Hayward, wife of the San
Francisco capitalist. has $1,000, 900 which
l.,,.,
married experience has been a checkered
one. She married Hayward no long time
after he began life with 800 and his free
dom suit, and was left behind in Minnesota
while her husband went West to look for
gold She did not hear from him for num-
Der of years, and it is reported that he said
she never would have heard from him if he
had not struck it rich He got down to his
last dollar, borrowed from Flood or some
of the bonanza men to put into a mine
that for some reason he had faith in, struck
pay dirt, divided up handsomely with his
benefactor and all went merry, though
some of the younger men have heaped up
bigger piles since. Hayward doesn't be
lieve in extravaganza, so he launched
his son with $50, 900 only when he came of
age.
There are number of cattle queens who
have made money. Mrs. Henry G. Meredith,
or Cambridge CITY, has inherited famous
stock farm from her husband, who in turn
received it from Gen. Sol Meredith, his
father. Mrs Meredith is an authority in
her business, and was the only woman
present at the annual meeting of the Indi-
ana Shorthorn Breeders Association at In
dianapolis a few weeks ago. Miss Annie
Thomas, of Billings, Mo-, has a big ranch
and two paying mines near Butte City.
Mrs Rogers, the Texas ranch woman, has
made a million. Mrs Bishop Tiff Warren,
who got her money from Tiff, the Colorado
cattle king, is wealthy woman. She man.
ages her ranch personally and shows excel
lent business judgment.
Prima donnas one takes for granted. Patti
gave million francs to M. de Caux to get
rid Of him. Lucca gave a good bit to her
husband. Nilsson pensioned Rouzeaud, and
Gerster has pensioned Gardini
ELIZA PUTNAM HEAToN.
President Cleveland on Mixed Schools.
Mr.. G.. A. Sullivan, editor of the Mont